The tree of temperance – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The tree of temperance comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Its title, *The Tree of Temperance*, ties the print to the American temperance movement, which had grown into one of the largest reform campaigns of the 1840s. Nathaniel Currier published it in New York around 1849, and his firm produced many moral and temperance subjects for buyers who hung inexpensive lithographs in homes, taverns and reading rooms. The hand coloring was applied by hand to each sheet, a finishing step that let a single design sell at different prices. The print reflects an era when pledges of abstinence and the Washingtonian societies of the early 1840s were drawing alcohol into public debate.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1849. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6622 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,102 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109940 |
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